S/o your favorite novel as a teenager (jewish)

amother

Gold

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 12:40 am

One Tiny Spark
A Daughter of Two Mothers
The Double Life of Chani Greenberg
A Rose Among Thorns
Green Fences

Also Ruth Benjamin ones as a very young teen but I don't remember titles.

I wish I could remember more offhand!

amother

Slategray

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 12:45 am

The unanswered cry
Cant remember the name or author but a trilogy of a women becoming an ob after her marriage and birth of her baby, started out in israel and moves to england
Maybe more will come to me

amother

Marigold

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 12:48 am

amother Slategray wrote:

Working it out, getting it right, making it last

amother

Slategray

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 12:53 am

amother Marigold wrote:

Working it out, getting it right, making it last

That's it! Used to read and reread them..

seeker

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:07 am

I know I'm not from the younger folk here but it still startles me to hear y'all enjoying in your teens books that I was sure only existed in adulthood.

One of my favorites that hasn't come up here yet is Aleph Shin. I don't think it aged great but at the time it was a very original and interesting read.

I remember getting very engrossed in The Gordian Knot, but I don't remember if I liked it in the end. I should reread it and find out. It was just really long and you had to really sink into it. I think it hit all the old Jewish novel stereotypes with an Inquisitor and Nazis and baalei teshuva and everything. I think. It was a long time ago.

I had a lot of Jewish books I liked, actually.

GOODMOM

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:31 am

I remember crying as a teenager when I first read the book : Dovid Meyer.
Lots of books mentioned above were also my favourites.

amother

Poinsettia

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:35 am

I probably read I can call you Ima a dozen times. But I for sure started it at younger than teenager.

I love a lot of the books mentioned here.

Also family for a while

mfb

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:38 am

So many of these books were my favorites

I can call you ima
Conquered darkness
Unanswered cry
On a golden Chain
If only…

These are all books I read many many times as a girl.

All good books to cry over

amother

Buttercup

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:43 am

amother Quince wrote:

Family Secfets by Sarah Birnhack. I cry every time I read it even though I've read it too many times to count.

Oh my, yes! I felt so bad for Hershel (I think thats his name).

I recently reread it, and I still teared up while reading.

farm

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 1:52 am

Double Identity and a few others by that author that escapes me.
One Tiny Spark
On a Golden Chain
A series with Judy who was a baalas teshuva and her friend Tova

Dev80

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 2:03 am

Yesterday's child
On a golden chain
The working it out /getting it right trilogy
Sun inside rain
Dark tapestry

kenz

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 2:04 am

farm wrote:

Double Identity and a few others by that author that escapes me.
One Tiny Spark
On a Golden Chain
A series with Judy who was a baalas teshuva and her friend Tova

Double Identity is by Meir Bendet. Totally unappreciated by today’s generation.

seeker

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 2:20 am

farm wrote:

Double Identity and a few others by that author that escapes me.
One Tiny Spark
On a Golden Chain
A series with Judy who was a baalas teshuva and her friend Tova

Judy and Tova I believe were Try for a Dream, And Then There Were Four, and I don't remember the other one (s?)

seeker

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 2:21 am

Oh! Anyone remember The Safe Place? I think Ptach put it out. It definitely inspired me to go into special ed though I don't think I'm anywhere near as magical as the teacher in the book. I wish.

boysrus

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 2:22 am

seeker wrote:

Judy and Tova I believe were Try for a Dream, And Then There Were Four, and I don't remember the other one (s?)

the last one was 'goodbye my friends'
I loved those books!

Hashem_Yaazor

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 9:10 am

Rappel wrote:

YES.

We had a few random ones, not the whole set, so I would just jump in and out of these people's lives

I just bought the whole republished set per my 10 yo's wishes for our house.
And then got one for his classroom as well as his rebbe is reading them aloud 😉

GLUE

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 9:22 am

seeker wrote:

Judy and Tova I believe were Try for a Dream, And Then There Were Four, and I don't remember the other one (s?)

They were just reprinted.

There is a companion serial with one of the girls step sister, I don't remember what those books were called.

The serial with the girls in a high school I some of the tildes Passport to Russia, the Silent Summer, some of them were also reprinted.

keym

Fri, Dec 22 2023, 9:26 am

I loved The pomegranate Pendant.
So beautiful.
Anyone know where I could get a hold of it to read again?

All the Myer Bennet books were trailblazers.